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first computer

irishpureblood — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:03:47 GMT

just wondering what most people first computer was on this forum

my was zx81....

Re: first computer

robpaxton — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:47:03 GMT

The first computer I ever used was a fondly remembered HP 2000F connected to an ASR 33 teletype via a 110 baud modem.

The first home computer I had was the Texas Instruments TI99/4A

Re: first computer

seb21__ — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:31:15 GMT

Mine was a Amiga500 and later a Fujitsu/Siemens labtop(Pentium 166MMX, 64MB RAM, 4GB harddisk).:smileylove: :smileygrin:

Re: first computer

kee-lo_ — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:52:32 GMT

Mine was an Atari ST 520FM

Re: first computer

rich912 — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:15:44 GMT

OMG this is really going to show my age!

First computer used was a Fortran punch card machine (at Uni). It was the size of a family car and I never did successfully programme any structural calculations.

First home computer was an 8086 machine with 640 kB memory and a 12 Mb hard disk.

How things have changed!!!

Re: first computer

William — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:13:30 GMT


First computer used was a Fortran punch card machine (at Uni). It was the size of a family car and I never did successfully programme any structural calculations.

How things have changed!!!

I remember them, I used to travel to Harwell to feed the cards into a reader!

My first computer was a Commodore 64, eventually replaced by an Amstrad 2286, with 40Mb hard drive, floppy drive and a 286 12Mhz processor. I think I upgraded the memory to 4Mb?

William

Re: first computer

daniello — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:42:51 GMT

My first computer was an Acorn Electron with an enormous 32K of RAM:smileylaugh:

Re: first computer

thickloaf — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:12:30 GMT

my first computer was a zx spectrum 81. rubber keys and manic miner which i recall took forever to load on the tape cassette player and made one hell of a racket! but the game and the graphics were awsome!
all the neighbours were jealous

does anyone remember getting hours of satisfaction doing this

10 PRINT HELLO MY NAME IS THICKLOAF
20 GOTO 10

haha.. them were the days when you could see your name flashing all over the portable tv screen thinking you were the boy on the block!

Re: first computer

Thalamus. — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:37:09 GMT

My first computer was a Commodore 64.

Did anyone on this forum use a Konrad Zuse - Z1 Computer

Was Rich's Fortran the oldest one used by forum members?

Re: first computer

jumpsuit — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:16:30 GMT

Well gentlemen, my first computer was the Dragon 32!!!
Anyone remember Pitfall?:smileylaugh:

Re: first computer

kee-lo_ — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:31:52 GMT

Anyone remember Pitfall?:smileylaugh:

Yeah had it on the ST

Re: first computer

tonybeard — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:50:11 GMT

In the early 80's I had a big Wang at uni with 640k of Ram and placemat 8 inch disks which made great frissbies but could take you're eye out. I had TV Pong woo hoo too.
in the early 90's I leased a hugely expensive Mac PowerPC 840mhz with two level cache and 128meg of RAM. I hate to say it but I have never experienced a trouble free computer since.

Re: first computer

Thalamus. — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:51:47 GMT

In the early 80's I had a big Wang at uni

Are you boasting ??

Has it shrunk with age?

Re: first computer

tonybeard — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:04:35 GMT

Yes Wangs do tend to shrink over time. All to do with the see pee you. If the pee part runs faster the wang tends to shrink:smileylaugh: